Llyngwyn report May day 06

[ol red eyes]

Very early start, my pal who is quite new to flyfishing was determined to fish a river, despite my explanation that it's still too cool.Anyway a return visit to Rhayader and Elan valley was decided.
We set off from Worcestershire with over eighty miles to go before 5am, after a late-ish night before, slight hangover and Al's sat nav irritating me, not a great start to the day!
Stopped at garage in Leominster, no diesel, toilets out of order, broken coffee machine and an assistant who could only grin inanely, a night with some pungent herbs seemed the obvious cause! could things get worse? eventually found a fully opperational service station with all our requirements in working order, strong coffee did the job.
Arrived at Rhayader about 6.45 found Powells newsagents, very helpful, bought a permit each that covered several stretches of river Wye,Marteg and Elan as well as Llyngwyn lake that I had enjoyed last august, all for £14.
As Al had set his heart on river fishing we walked a great deal of the river Wye stretches, but not convinced, very few pools that looked fishy and gin clear with little cover as the trees are still without leaves.
Eventually got to Llyngwyn about 9.30 this is a smallish lake about 15 acres, crystal clear in beautiful surroundings. Started to get heavy showers every ten minutes and stiff cooling breeze, despite this few olives hatching near the bank and blowing out towrds the far bank, most flies were snatched at only twenty feet out, very encouraging.Tried every olive imitation we had but no good, tied on foam beetle and dry black and peacock while Al continued with the nymphs.After ten minutes hit a very powerful fish, good scrap with what turned out to be an exsquisite bluey-silver brown trout about 1 3/4lb, couldn't kill it far too pretty (must get a digital camera).
Then wind turned slightly and brought several hard cold showers, fish stopped rising all went quiet except, nice to see three young lads fishing, bit noisey but encouraging, too few youngsters in our sport I feel.
Weather improved about 12, broken cloud so had a chat to some other fishermen most of whom, surprisingly, had come from our kneck of the woods. Took advice to go on the buzzer had a rainbow each around the 2lb stamp over the next hour or so excellent conditioned, hard fighting fish and then a small tench! suprised me but the regulars remained unimpessed, there's also a population of large carp that are fished for from a few course pegs near the carpark, please most of the people most of the time, great!
in the later afternoon the flies started to hatch again and this really brought on the fish I had two more silver browns and a rainbow while Al had two rainbows and a brown.
All fish went back except a brace of rainbows between us, excellent day I recommend this friendly fishery to anyone well worth the trip through some beautiful countryside, thankyou Rhayader and Elan Valley Angling Association for sharing your water
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[Rob M]

Cracking report, well done on the fish and glad you got past that garage-sounds a bit like League Of Gentlemen!

Rob

[baitmaster]

enjoyed that well done to ya

tightlines
kevin

[Fishing Forum Admin]

interesting read mate

[Old Smoothound]

Nice report...good to see a couple more fluff chuckers on the forum...

[Greenheart]

Cracking read there Red Eyes. Theres some nice fishing in Wales. Have you ever fished Taly Bont near Brecon?

[ol red eyes]

hiya, no not tried that one, must look it up, go to lake Vernwy (spelled something like that) couple of times each year, now that is a beautiful place, 1850 reservoir interesting dam and tower.Fishing can be tough, usually prefer trad lock style if not too breezy, stocked browns and some wild, well worth a visit but beware of the midges, vicious beasts, nothing seems to work against them!!! permits from the hotel above the lake, nice.
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[fishypaul]

smashing read well done

[Greenheart]

Originally Posted by ol red eyes

hiya, no not tried that one, must look it up, go to lake Vernwy (spelled something like that) couple of times each year, now that is a beautiful place, 1850 reservoir interesting dam and tower.Fishing can be tough, usually prefer trad lock style if not too breezy, stocked browns and some wild, well worth a visit but beware of the midges, vicious beasts, nothing seems to work against them!!! permits from the hotel above the lake, nice.
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Sounds Great mate. Talybont is very picturesque too. It's completely surrounded by mountains & is in a cul de sac type valley so it has no roads going past it. I have fished it a few times & each time fished until it was pitch dark. Heaven, no traffis noise, just the odd sheep & because of the mountains, no orange glow in the sky from the sodium lights of nearby towns. Very obliging wild brownies too. + a cracking pub just a mile down the valley.

[BaggieRich]

Nice report ORE, glad you enjoyed your day and a couple of nice fish too.

Cheers,

Rich.